a
website for the exposition of
haiku* and mercifully short poetry presented
in the following formats...
The Farting
Frog is a collection of haiku and a small
group of short poems that have been submitted to the site
or have been ripped-off from other sites and given
proper credit and links to their source. All of these
have been hand-picked by migrant farm workers
who moonlight as our editors for no pay.
The Thicket
of Thorns is a collection of haiku and short
poetry that have been posted directly to the page by you,
the poet, and some are periodically edited or pruned out
depending on the whims of our insensitive editors.
There are some rules about what they will accept.
*ABOUT HAIKU
Let's face it, the stuff called haiku on this site is not
haiku at all. Haiku is a beautiful poetry form that originated
in old Japan and served as a meditative excercise for
Zen Buddhists. It was mastered only by a few and then
only by dedicating a life to its demands. The work posted
here is haiku only insofar as it is concise, usually three
lines, and generally conforms to a seventeen-syllable
discipline. Most other aspects of the haiku essence
have been ignored or are unknown to our poets.
short poem short poem short poems read free short poems
short
pieces of poetry by Hugh Cook
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The Fish
Late
afternoon.
Hamstrung by shallows,
A fin in the sun.
I killed it to eat.
Dead, it was so beautiful
I left it as spoiled meat.
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Van Gough
Van Gough
Commits his ear to history:
History
Commits Van Gough.
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Sunflower
Since
I am not a sunflower,
The spring
Is not sufficient
(without you)
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Very Short Poems
Shortpoems
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Cherry Blossom, April 2003
Fresh
blossoms.
No thought of falling.
Behind closed eyelids,
Smoke.
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Odysseus on Delos
The quick
flames eat.
The white ash feathers to the sky.
The light pours down, as light
On Ida and on Samothrace descended,
Lucidities of light to make more pitiless
All deeds of daylight.
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Warpoem
Nausica.
The daughter of a king.
Dreams of the pulse of a beating moth.
Dreaming of dolphins leaping and turquoise tiles.
Nausica earnest as Odysseus tells his stories:
How swords gashed echoes from the sky,
How heroes clashed, and one narneked the other,
Gorbelled his skull, trophated his endention,
Debaunched his orchids, and called forth
The hidden pitches of panic
Out from their lair of bones.
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Warpoets
The warpoets
are singing
Oil, profit, peace, power,
Sweet lubrication,
Pumping in through the back border,
Drive-in window war.
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Publication
details: "The Fish" and "Van Gough" were
first published in Craccum on 12 March 1979 and was first
posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 March 21 Friday.
Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.
"Sunflower"
was first published in Craccum on 10 April 1979 and was first
posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 March 21 Friday.
Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.
The poems
"Cherry Blossom, April 2003," "Odysseus on
Delos," "Warpoem," "Warpoets" and
"Raw Materials" were first posted on the Internet
in 2003. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.
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